Rogers and Bell have web sites for testing your internet speed.  The 
advantage of using one should be that it is a pretty pure test of the 
ISP's infrastructure.

TL;DR: run the test from a fast computer.

When I used Bell's speed test on my own router (remember that it runs 
Fedora 38 and thus has FireFox and Chromium) the results were 
disappointing.  Half or two-thirds of my promised speed.

The problem turns out to be the web page itself.  It burns a lot of 
processor power (javascript, surely).  When I run it from behind my 
router, on a fast computer, the speed is as promised.

When the client was a notebook with an i3-1005g1 processor, the result was 
also disappointing.  I used a USB-c to 2.5G ethernet dongle.

When the client was a notebook with a Ryzen 7 6800H, the result was good.
I used the same dongle.
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